Ramy Moustafa recently contributed research to UNODC’s case law analysis of Female Victims of Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation as Defendants.
Ramy Moustafa (Human Right LLM, 2020) recently contributed research to UNODC’s case law analysis of Female Victims of Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation as Defendants.
“The study analyses case law on trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation involving female defendants, who had been or were contemporaneously being exploited as trafficking victims. Fifty-three cases were analysed from 16 different jurisdictions, with a focus on the European region. It reached many interesting and extremely important findings. Mainly, we found that in many cases traffickers use victims to shield themselves from prosecution. In many of the cases examined, traffickers used victims to commit acts proximate to the exploitation itself. Furthermore, another key finding was that female victim-defendants in the case law examined were commonly intimate partners, wives, sisters, daughters, nieces, or mothers of their traffickers.
Special thanks to Queen Mary Alumni Team Queen Mary University of London for giving me that chance to work with UNODC, I hope we made you proud. Special thanks also to Chevening Awards for everything.
And of course very special thanks to my amazing supervisor Zoi Sakelliadou for all the efforts she exerted with us”.
Ramy currently works as a Senior Public Prosecutor and Director of Prosecution at the Egyptian Public Prosecution Office and his work on human trafficking cases paved the way for him to contribute to this publication.
The publication is available to download from UNODC.org.